The traveling exhibition HeART OF GAZA features drawings created by Palestinian children in Gaza, aged 3 to 17 years, during the ongoing conflict. Created in cooperation with Féile Butler from Sligo, Ireland, it is based on a project founded by Mohammed Timraz, a Gaza-based art therapy researcher at the University of Parma and the owner of Grey Café in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, which was destroyed by Israeli bombing in 2024.
Timraz embarked on this project with a clear goal: to allow children in the Gaza Strip to express their feelings and communicate their experiences through drawing and art amid the catastrophic humanitarian conditions that have been imposed by the Zionist entity. With these activities, he intended to help transform pain and suffering into a humanitarian art space that fosters creativity and encourages the free expression of trauma and complex emotions through an authentic visual language. Since 2024, the project has organized art workshops for children in the so-called Artists’ Tent in the city of Deir al-Balah and in other art spaces located in various areas of the Gaza Strip. Over time, it expanded to include more than 17 art spaces, and it has involved over 2,000 children who find in art a way to express what they sometimes cannot express with words.
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Hind by Qamar Timraz (age 17) and Misk Timraz (age 15).